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Five Questions for Heather Conlan-Katz of Goldman Sachs‍

April 3, 2020

We caught up with Heather Conlan-Katz, vice president and global head of Technology Client Event Services at Goldman Sachs, for her perspectives on technology and other aspects of Goldman Sachs Engineering.

Financial Services

Fintech

Information Technology & Software

Industry Interviews

Silicon Valley Bank Expands in Cottonwood Heights

February 13, 2020

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) will expand its operations in that city. The three-year agreement with GOED projects 116 new jobs and capital expenditure of $4.8 million.

FY 19-20 Wins

Financial Services

Project Wins

Eden Technologies Selects Ogden

February 21, 2020

Eden Technologies, Inc. (Eden), a San Francisco-based workplace experience platform, has chosen Ogden as the location to build their new inside sales team. The company expects to add 25 jobs.

Information Technology & Software

Project Wins

Deserve Sees Utah Expansion in the Cards

March 12, 2020

Deserve, Inc. will open an office in Utah, creating up to 258 high-paying jobs in the next five years. The agreement with GOED projects capital expenditure of $1.2 million. The company has selected Taylorsville for the new office.

FY 19-20 Wins

Financial Services

Fintech

Business Friendly

Project Wins

Nelnet to Open New Utah Industrial Bank

April 9, 2020

Nelnet, Inc. will open an office in Utah, creating up to 52 high-paying jobs in the next five years. This location will be the headquarters for their recently formed banking operation and is their first Utah office. Capital expenditure is estimated to be $1 million.

FY 19-20 Wins

Financial Services

Industrial Banks

Project Wins

RS Technologies Plants Itself in St. George

April 9, 2020

RS Technologies, Inc (RS) will establish a manufacturing facility and office in St. George, creating up to 358 high-paying jobs in the next seven years. The agreement with GOED projects capital expenditure of $35 million.

FY 19-20 Wins

Manufacturing & Distribution

Project Wins

A Virtual Town Hall Conversation with Site Selector Gray Swoope

May 12, 2020

Gray Swoope is the president & CEO of VisionFirst Advisors, a consulting group out of Florida. In addition to his work in site selection, Gray spent numerous years working in economic development. Gray joined us for a virtual town hall on COVID-19’s impact on the site selection process.

Site Selection

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Anglepoint Growing in Lindon

May 14, 2020

Anglepoint Group, Inc. will expand its Utah location, creating up to 93 high-paying jobs in the next five years. The agreement with GOED projects capital expenditure of $410,000.

FY 19-20 Wins

Information Technology & Software

Business Friendly

Project Wins

GoHealth to Bring 1,100+ More Jobs to Utah

May 14, 2020

GoHealth, LLC will expand its Utah location in Lindon, creating up to 1,159 high-paying jobs in the next five years. The agreement with GOED projects capital expenditure of $10 million.

FY 19-20 Wins

Project Wins

Malouf Expands in Cache County

May 14, 2020

Malouf will expand its operations in Utah, creating 1,195 new jobs in the next 10 years.

FY 19-20 Wins

Project Wins

Diversification and Growth: Five Questions for Slade Opheikens of R&O Construction

May 19, 2020

R&O Construction, a long-time EDCUtah investor, celebrates its 40-year anniversary this year. With about 180 employees across its offices in Ogden, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas the company works on projects ranging from retail to multifamily and even industrial construction. We caught up with the company’s second-generation CEO, Slade Opheikens, to learn more about their company and how they’re adapting in the age of COVID-19.

Construction

Industry Interviews

Putting the Open Sign Back Out: Five Questions for San Juan and Kane Counties

May 22, 2020

As cities and counties that rely on tourism cautiously navigate nearer toward normal, they need to rebuild consumer confidence. Service businesses are seeking help financially but also in how to assure people their places of business are safe to visit. We caught up with local economic development leaders to learn about two newly launched and collaboratively developed awareness campaigns – Kane County’s “Above and Beyond” and San Juan County’s “The San Juan Strong Promise.”

Industry Interviews

Square to Open a Utah Industrial Bank: Five Questions for Frank Pignanelli

June 9, 2020

On March 18, Square Inc. received approval from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the State of Utah to open an Industrial Bank (IB), which is big news for the U.S. fintech industry. For context on this news, we caught up with well-known lobbyist Frank Pignanelli.

Fintech

Financial Services

Industry Interviews

GearLaunch Expands in Salt Lake City

June 10, 2020

GearLaunch has relocated its headquarters to Salt Lake City, bringing 15 new creative, technical, and management jobs to Utah.

Manufacturing & Distribution

FY 20-21 Wins

Project Wins

A Fan of Utah: Past Project Check-In

June 10, 2020

Recently, while driving through a Salt Lake City industrial area, Alan Rindlisbacher was surprised and curious as he passed by the unpretentious fabrication building and offices of Robinson Fans. Having been the economic development manager of the expansion project decades ago, he did a quick U-turn to get an update.

Manufacturing & Distribution

EDCUtah Match Grant Program Supercharges Cedar City’s Strategic Planning

July 1, 2020

To offset 50 percent of a strategic survey’s cost, Cedar City applied for an EDCUtah Special Project Match Grant.

Match Grant

EDCUtah News

Trevco Opening Operations in West Valley City

July 8, 2020

Trevco is opening a manufacturing and distribution center in West Valley City, bringing upwards of 50 new jobs to Utah.

Manufacturing & Distribution

Project Wins

1-800Accountant Bringing New Jobs to Utah

July 9, 2020

1-800Accountant will open an office in Utah, creating up to 120 new high-paying jobs in the next five years. The company anticipates project-related capital expenditures of $211,000.

Financial Services

FY 20-21 Wins

Project Wins

Working on the Railroad: Five Questions for Union Pacific’s Nathan Anderson

July 14, 2020

Union Pacific has 1,269 miles of track in Utah and has had a presence here from more than 150years. We caught up with Nathan Anderson, Senior Director, Public Affairs, to find out how the railroad is evolving and adapting.

Infrastructure

Manufacturing & Distribution

Industry Interviews

In the Blink of an Eye: Five Questions for Data Center Developer Wes Swenson

July 22, 2020

Novva will invest over $1 billion in the next several years, spanning four phases, totaling over 1.5 million square feet (sf) of data center space.

Data Center

Information Technology & Software

Industry Interviews

Facebook and Eagle Mountain: Five Questions for William Marks

July 30, 2020

A new EDCUtah investor and a past corporate expansion project, Facebook is building a data center campus in Eagle Mountain, Utah. We caught up with William Marks, Facebook’s Community Development Manager in Utah, to ask about project progress, sustainability and solar, and the company’s COVID-19 response.

Data Center

Information Technology & Software

Industry Interviews

Utah's Industrial Banks

August 20, 2020

Utah is currently one of only six states home to industrial banks and holds more than 90% of all industrial bank assets.

Financial Services

Fintech

What Site Selectors are Saying: The Future of Office Space, Incentives, Reshoring, and Virtual Site Visits

November 23, 2020

Site Selection

What Site Selectors Are Saying: The Growing Role of Diversity on Location Decisions

November 30, 2020

Diversity

Site Selection

Diversity in Utah

Utah’s Top Ten Economic Development Stories in 2020

January 2, 2021

Without doubt, the top economic news story of 2020 was the pandemic. Let’s take a rest from that topic and focus on some significant economic development highlights in Utah – milestones that are worth celebrating.

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Fervo Energy breaks ground on geothermal power plant in Beaver County, Utah

Minova to open a new manufacturing facility in Tooele County

Milford Mining Company Utah LLC expands operations to Beaver County

Data Intelligence Company Makes Strides in South Jordan

C&J Specialties to Expand Production in Sanpete County

Ferro Concepts Elevates Tactical Solutions in Ogden, Utah

General Atomics - CCRi Software Program Takes Flight in Utah

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Tintic Consolidated Metals Expands Utah Headquarters

Schreiber Foods Bulks Up Utah Presence

Procter & Gamble Paper Products To Expand in Box Elder County

Utah Supports Expansion of Morgan Stanley

Lineage Logistics Expanding in Grantsville

Nucor Insulated Panel To Grow In Box Elder County

tZERO Group Growing Its Utah Headquarters

Heavy Sweet Oil Expanding Headquarters in Uintah County

Greenfield Energy to Add a Facility in Uintah County

EP Systems Pushes the Throttle Forward in Cache County

Breeze Airways on the Rise in Utah

Vitalpax to Expand Manufacturing Operations in Rural Utah

Stackline Finds a Landing Zone in Lehi

Steves & Sons Finds Open Door in Brigham City

LiveView Technologies Eyes Utah Expansion

LoanPro to Expand Northern Utah HQ

Kentuckiana Curb Company Raises the Roof in Tooele

Distribution Company Revman To Grow in Utah

Vobev Brings Beverage Operations to Salt Lake City

ecoBellus to Bloom in Utah

DMOS Collective Finds Utah “Shovel-Ready”

Tovala Crafts Future Growth in Utah

Brandless to Boost Utah’s Consumer Tech Space

Udo Frames Its Future in Farmington

Leitner-Poma on the Rise in Utah

Cytiva Expands in Cache County

Apogee Worx to Grow Its Ogden Aerospace Location

Lumio Sheds Light on Utah Expansion

Biotechnology Company Perfect Day Coming to Utah

The Weir Group Anchors Business Operations in Utah

Malouf Companies™ To Expand Its Utah Headquarters

AmTrust Financial Services Sees Growth in Utah Operations

MPLC Bringing a Touch of Hollywood to the Silicon Slopes

American Packaging Corp. Adding New Plant in Cedar City

Owens Corning Building Its Presence in Utah

Barnes Bullets To Expand Its Utah Headquarters

Taxbit Ramping Up Utah Location

Nusano Joins the Utah Biohive

Premier Tech Expands in Davis County

Hexcel Lifts Off in West Valley City

Armscor Opts for Iron County

R-Zero Brings New Wave of Biosafety Innovation to Utah

Sunwest Bank to Expand in Sandy

Plastic Ingenuity Chooses Tooele City

Denali Therapeutics Joins Salt Lake City’s Life Sciences Hub

CaptiveAire Finds Warm Reception in St. George

Saraya USA Inc. Finds a Home Sweet Home in Orem

Nucor Announces Plans to Build TrueCore Facility in Utah

Scorpion to Open Utah Office

Facebook’s Eagle Mountain Data Center Expansion

Orgill Continues Investment in Hurricane, Utah

Novacoast Opts for Orem

Carvana Parks Itself in Utah

CSS Composites Investing and Expanding in Richfield

DOMO Continues Growth in Utah

Cytiva Continues Cache County Growth

Traeger Pellet Grills To Expand Salt Lake City HQ

Update: Airborne ECS To Expand Its St. George Office

United Radio to Expand Operations in Utah

Theodore Global Brings Beverage Business to Utah